Niles West High School in Skokie, IL, just north of Chicago, is hosting a mirror of the Norcross BDAT on January 7th, 2012. Please note that this is the same date as the IHSSBCA Turnabout. Any team consisting solely of high schoolers from a single school may register, and all teams will be guaranteed to play throughout the day.

The format will consist of round robin prelims followed by rebracketing into round robin playoffs and then an advantaged final. We'll follow mACF rules with powers and negs, including 4v4 matches with a strict maximum of 6 players per team. Therefore, schools are encouraged to bring multiple teams. There will be no minimum number of players per team.

Registration is closed. You may post here or email me at aarongoldfein at gmail dot com if you would like to be added to the waitlist.

$55 for the first team from a school

$45 for each subsequent team from a school

-$5 for each functional buzzer system a team brings (max 1 per team, not per school)

-$10 for each staffer a team brings (staffers will also be provided lunch)

The first post has been updated to reflect the current field. Any schools that want in should sign up soon, because we're quickly approaching our 12 team cap. Also, we could use a couple more experienced moderators.

With the addition of our first out of state team from Rock Bridge, this field is becoming extremely competitive. We only have two more slots available: interested teams should sign up soon if they want in.

I'm happy to announce that we're able to expand our field to 16 teams. Registration is once again open! If we fill up, we may go up to 18 teams though it is very unlikely we'll go any higher than that.

Is there still space in this tournament? I know my team can't officially go, but if there are still openings, I'll talk to my coach and see if he's okay with my either playing solo or with a few friends/teammates.

Alex KlingLatin School of Chicago class of 2012Williams College class of 2016

Cubfan125 wrote:Is there still space in this tournament? I know my team can't officially go, but if there are still openings, I'll talk to my coach and see if he's okay with my either playing solo or with a few friends/teammates.

Right now we're at 14 teams, and adding another would put us at 15, which is kind of a gross number. If we could get a 16th team, then I could certainly add you. Otherwise, get me definite confirmation and I'll see if I can do something like add a chimera team that would allow us to add you.

With the late additions of Latin and Fremd B, we're now at 16 teams. With this, I'm closing the field. Any teams still interested in the tournament can email me to get on the waitlist.

Our format will thus be two brackets of 8 in the morning, and then a 6/6/4 split in the afternoon with the top two divisions playing without repeats. The bottom bracket will play a full round robin. Thus, all teams will be guaranteed 10 matches. An advantaged final will then follow in the top bracket only.

Loyola cleared the field here. I believe Rock Bridge and New Trier were playing for 2nd place, with the loser tied with Machiavelli Academy for third place.I'm not going to reveal the identities of Machiavelli Academy players, but at least two IMSA A members were not present at all for this tournament, and at least one additional IMSA A player was not present for most of the playoffs. IMSA B+ would be a closer approximation for Machiavelli Academy than IMSA A-.

First off, thank you to Aaron and Niles West for their hospitality. I had a really good time and would definitely do it again. Also thanks and safe travels to Rock Bridge for again making their way out to our state for a tournament.

Congratulations to Loyola, who certainly rose above the field and earned this win.

Dr. Noah Prince

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Congrats to Loyola; they played at more or less the top of their game all day and were not going to be beaten. Great performance. I was also impressed with Latin and Andrew Wang in their playoff shootout with tons of early buzzes.

Also, this was a very strong first-tournament; Aaron, I hope you and Niles West host more events, and I'd love to come back to help again. You guys did practically everything right, and the minor issue that did crop up (printing playoff schedules at lunch rather than having already printed blank schedules with blanks to fill in; printer fail did you in here) was hardly a problem and the tournament was maaaaaybe delayed 10 minutes by it, from what I saw.

I thought rather highly of the set; good answer selection, especially on tossups and easy parts of bonuses. The hard parts were challenging - often very much so - but it didn't it feel like you were being attacked by the edges of the college canon, and I think that's optimal for a regular difficulty set. Kudos to Norcross for a solid writing performance!

Wow. It appears Kristin is even more awesome than I had originally thought.

I echo Brad's sentiments about the questions. The easy parts were pretty accessible, and the hard (and medium) parts were pretty hard. They were still generally good bonus choices if the goal was to make this set a little harder than the standard IS set.